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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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